TRANSYLVANIA—
An Industrial, Tourist, Educa
tional, Agricultural arid Music
Center. Population, I960 Census,
1(5,372. Brevard Cotnmuni.y 3,500,
Brevard proper 4,357.
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TRANSYLVANIA—
The I..md of Waterfalls, Mecca
11*r Stinuner Camps. Entrance to
I’: .'.'ah National Forest and
1 Ionic of Brevard College and
Brevard Music Festival.
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Nation’s
Top Travel Expert To Speak Here At Annual Commerce Banquet
Tlic* USA’s Man of the Year
in Mi<- travel industry — North
U.irolina’s Voil Gilmore — will
he the principal speaker at the
animal liampiet of the Brevard
( liamhoi of Comhieree on I’ri
^ d.iy nivnl, Mart'll iith.
The ladies’ niylil affair will
lie held in llie Masonic tem
ple, and elaborate plans are hc
in•.* made for this auspicious
orca-ioil.
Mr tiilmore, a resident <if
Southern Bines, is director of
tin- I oiled Stales Travel Serv
ice established ill the Depart
ment of Commerce in Ittlil for
the purpose of improving the
.balance of trade Iiv persuad
iii.i/ more foreigners to visit
Wieti.SA.
11 is success in establishing
a world wide organization and
increasing tile flow of visitors
from ahroad is attested l>y the
‘‘Travel Man of the Year”
award made annually by the
Atllerican Motor Hotel associa
tion for the greatest achieve
ment in the travel industry.
Operating in virgin territory |
— (The U.S.A. was one of the
few nations that did not have
a national travel department) |
— (tilinore got the “Visit
U.S.A.” campaign going full
blast in only a year and a half.
USTS now has offices in 10
key countries in Europe, South
America, Asia and the South
I'acilic.
"In the short span of 18
months the U. S. Travel Serv
ice has gained an impressive
foothold, unmatched in recent
; years by any comparable trav
| el activity, government or pri
vate,” wrote Editor Irwin Rob
j inson of “Travel Weekly”, a
biblo of the travel indu.sly.
..
| This followed an earlier look
I at the U.S.T.S. by syndicated
j columnist I’.oh Considiiie, who
said Voit (lilmore’s operation
I was a good investment and
1 pointed out that evert with our
1 start in advertising U. S. trav
1 el abroad, the U. S. investment
i in this project still ranked
23rd among 25 promoting trav
el through nftional govern
ment offices. j
Mr. Considiiv touched on a
major; reason for Voit Gil
more'i success; He’s driving
home jk> foreig icrs that travel
in thi$ USA r :ed not be as
expensive as reputed, and
there are mao.sfattractions out
side ports of entry and metro
politan content which arc most
inexpensive —I in North Caro
lina lor instance.
The soundness of this ap
proach was refected in a 220
increase in travel to the U. S.
from abroad during the first
half of last year.
An .outstanding feature of
the "Visit tf.S.A.” program
last year was the North Caro
lina travel mission to Europe
in March, the; first state-spon
sored mission of this kind, and
the visit to hfirth Carolina in
October of 25 European travel
executives lot on-the-spot in
spection of ojir travel attrae
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V01T GILMORE
Directors of the Brevard
Chamber of Commerce adopt
ed a record budget of S7.500.00.
at their regular 'February
i meeting Tuesday night in the
; library.
1
It was presented bv W. H.
Keith, chairman of the finance
committee, and one of the
largest items of expenditure
is S2.000 for industrial devel
opment.
The meeting Tuesday night
! was one of the best that the
directors have held in years in
Brevard. It was Well attend
ed. and many reports were
heard.
President VVavne Bradhurn
urged all committee chairmen
to have meetings during the
: month and to have reports of
t aims, objectives and accom
plishments ready for the next
.meeting.
j lie stressed the importance
of flic directors and member
ship encouraging the building
of homos and apartments for
the many now people who are
expected to come into the
community this year.
lie also placed emphasis on
working with the merchants
in remodeling and building a
modern shopping area in the
community.
Dewey Nix. chairman of the
merchants division reported
that plans were being made
for town wide promotions. He
said one goal would be the
stressing of better salesman
ship in selling Urovard as an
ideal place in which to shop.
"We re going to encourage
'Urovard citizens to trade in
Urovard." he commented.
John A. Ford, chairman of
the roads committee said that
although the roads and high
wavs may not appear to be in
the best of condition because
of the Weather.-the Stale High
way officials are doing every
thing possible to keen the.
emintv 'out of the mud".
He also brought the group
up-to-date on the progress
along the Blue Bidge Parkway.
A report was also made on
the progress of the Brevard
College Development cam
paign, which is under the lead
ership of Bill Keith, and he
said that so far response has
been good.
"it's no1 easy to raise $00,
000. but we feel that the drive
will be a success.”
A1 Martin, chairman of the
advertising committee, asked
for support of a campaign to
boost Brevard.
Town Manager Bill Edens,
who heads the beautification
committee, reported that his
group'will come up with sev
eral ideas lor beautifying the
town.
Dr. frank McGuire, chair
man of Hie education commit
ter, urged the directors and
llie members of the Brevard
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TR A NS YI.VA NIACOMMUNITY
CENTER officials are shown above
in fronl of the building on Gaston
street discussing the renovation work
that is now being done’and also the
campaign to raise funds that begins
on Thursday. From left to right, They
are: Rev. Ron Ormand, the campaign
director; Or. Julius Sader, president;
Mrs. Kmrrtott K. McLarty, secretary;
ami Tom McCrary, vice chairman,
who is also in charge of scheduling
meetings at the center.
(Times Staff Photo)
For Community Center
Campaign For $20,000 Is
Launched Here, Plea Is Made
A campaign to raise $20,000
will be launched this Thurs
day morning by officials of
the Transylvania Community
center,
Itev. Ben Ormand, campaign
director, says they hope the
goal can be reached during the
next two weeks.
‘IVe have a wonderful com
munity, and if all of us will
do our part, we will have no
trouble in reaching our mark,”
he declared.
lie emphasizes that this is a
five-year campaign in one.
The expenditure of the $20,
000 Is broken down as follows:
$1.‘>,000 - to pay for property
$3,000 • for emergency re
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CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Thursday, February 14 —
Girl Scout cookie sale begins.
Masons meet at Temple at 8:00
pm.
Friday, February 15 — Meet
ing of Better Schools Commit
tee at Brevard Senior High at
7:30 p.tn. Ace of Club meets at
8 00 p.m. Brevard Little Thea
tre play at Legion Building at
8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 16 — BLT
play at Legion Building at 8:00
p.m.
Sunday, February 17 — At
tend the church of your choice.
World War I Vets meet at court
—To Tot*
Friday, Saturday
Little Theatre Will Present
"You Can't Take It With You”
The curtain goes up Friday
night at 8:00 p.m. on one of
the zaniest comedies ever pre
sented by the Brevard Little
Theatre. It is Moss Hart and
George S. Kaufman’s stage
and screen hit "You Can’t
Take it With You”.
The play itself is enough to
convince you that “Everyone
is crazy but me and thee, and
sometimes even thee”.
The Vanderhof household—
three generations of the fam
I ily — operates on a standard
of values which underscores
the coinage of happiness.
Their delightful impracti
cably is the basis of every re
mark. When one member of
the family asks, "What time is
it?” she gets a helpful sugges
tion. “Mr. dePinna might
know,” and another idea, “It
was five o’clock about two
hours ago”.
In this happy family grand
father keeps pet snakes and
goes to commencements, moth
er has been writing plays since
a typewriter was accidently
delivered to the house 8 years
before, father manufactures
fireworks in the cellar, one
daughter studies ballet and
makes “love dream" candies,
and her husband prints copies
of sentiments which look good
in type.
Their way of life is put on
trial when the lovely daughter
Alice and her boss' son fall in
love. And since the authors
of the play, Moss Hart and
George S. Kaufman, have a
very active and dependable
sense of comedy, the boss and
his wife come to dinner on the
wrong night and see the Van
derhof household at its worst
— or best.
“You Can’t Take it With
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On The
Political
Front
(Fdi tor’s note: William
Leonard, Transylvania’s rep
resentative in the General
Assembly at Raleigh, spent
last weekend here at home. In
the following article he reports
on his activities during the
first few days of the legisla
ture.)
_ ,J
About a week ago Lewis P.
Hamlin, Mrs. Al Ream and a
large delegation of Leonards
attended the inauguration cere
monies at Raleigh where I was
sworn in as your representa
tive. It took us about an hour
to find seats, it was so crowd
ed. In fact, my wife, Biddy,
sat in House seat Number 120,
since it was vacant. She didn’t
get sworn in, but I have won
dered if any reporters were
confused by her presence.
The State Legislative build
ing is certainly new as we all
know. And it is much larger
than we are used to in this
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fT|uiiiiiniiniiinm»M»iiiiiiiiiiim«mnMHtnnnin f»l
! The Weather |
Q mini11linni0
The weatherman’s call for
snow was finally answered on
Tuesday morning of this week,
but by noon the snow had all but
disappeared.
Precipitation for the week to
taled one and a quarter inches.
High reading for the week was
67 and low temperature record
ed was 15 degrees.
Official statistics during the
past week were:
Wednesday - - - 67 23 0
Thursday - - - - 63 27 0
Friday. 49 29 0
Saturday. 42 25 0
Sunday.52 15 0
Monday.51 28 .27
Tuesday. 37 29 .98
At Olin Mathieson
Brownell Is Named General
Manager Of Packing Division
Philip C. Brownell, a corpor
ate vice president, has been
named general manager of the
Packaging Division of Oiin Math
ieson Chemical corporation, it is
announced by Stanley de J. Os
borne, president.
He formerly was manager of
the Film Operations and Kcusta
Paper Operations of the division.
These two operations and the
Forest Products Operations in
West Monroe, U., comprise the
operating units of the division.
din’s Packaging division man
ufacturers and sells a wide range
of packaging materials including
cellophane, kraft paper and
board, shipping containers, mul
tiwall sacks, grocery bags and
folding cartons. It also offers
Bible paper, lightweight print
_Turn to Page rour
PHILIP C. BROWNELL
JL. ia
Brevard Firemen Quell Stubborn
Ayers Store Blaze Tuesday Night
THE KICK-OFF CHECK in the
Brevard College Development cam
paign is being written by W. II.
Keith, vice president of the First Un
ion National bank here, in the pic
ture above. Naturally, C. A. But
| terworth,
j wearing a
the hank':
pledge to
cam pa urn treasurer, is
pleased look as he accepts
first paid. of a three-year
Brevard C'ollojre.
(Times Staff Photo)
Early Response To College
Drive Is Reported To Be Good
The Brevard College Devel
opment program is now under
way in the town and county
with a goal of 860.000.00.
Three-year pledges are be
ing solicited, and according to
Gilbert F. Coan, solicitation
chairman of the campaign, the
advance gifts division is get
ting fine response from busi
nesses and industrial firms in
Brevard who have already
been contacted.
Mr. Coan calls the local atten
tion to two North Carolina com
munitics who were convinced of
the economic value of a local
college.
The first, Rocky Mount, raised
82,000,000.00, in 1960 to provide
a site for a new college, and
pledged 850,000.00, annually tc
support the school.
“Just last year," Mr. Coan
said, “New Bern bid 81,000,
000.00, for Mount Olive college
when it appeared that the citi
zens of Mount Olive were be
coming lax in their support
of the college”.
The Brevard College Develop
ment Fund campaign is being
conducted by a special commit
tee of the Brevard Chamber oi
Commerce, headed by W. H,
Keith.
This committee has set March
llth-25th as the official cam
paign period, although they add
—Turn To Page Seven
'From Forest City
WPNF Making Plans To Carry
College Basketball Tourney
WI’NF is currently engaged in
making plans for carrying the
Brevard College games to lie
played in the playoff tournament
next week in East high's new
gymnasium in Forest. City, ae
cording to A1 Martin, station
manager.
“It has been a most pleasura
ble basketball season J'or us."
Martin stated.
“Frankly, we had expected far
more complications in broadcast
ing basketball Ilian in carrying
football, hut the events of this
season have proved n.s wrong.”
Dining litis season, the station
lias broadeast almost all of the
local names for hot It the high
school ami the college.
“We would like to express our
thanks to Ilrevard senior high
school coach, Paul Maultsby,
and Ilrevard College Coach
“Chick” Martin for their assis
tance." Martin said.
"Our appreciation also goes to
—Turn To Page Seven
Brevard Rolarians Celebrate
Anniversary, Background Cited
Next week the Brevard Rotary
club will celebrate the founding
of Rotary on February 23, 1905,
in Chicago, 111., Charles Pickcl
simer, the local president, states.
The local observance will be
gin with an important meeting
of the club next Monday night
in Gaither’s Rhododendron
room.
The Brevard Rotary club was
organized in August, 1947, and
the charter night banquet was
held the following month at the,
old Franklin hotel.
John 1. Amlershn was the first
president, and other presidents
are as follows:
19(i2-'63 C. W. Picklesimer,
Jr.
1961-'62 Jack E. Bryant
1960-’61 James E. Davis
1959-’60 D. G. Dail
1955- 59 Gil Coan
1957-’58 Dr. Frank McGuire
1956- ‘57 A1 Perkins
1955-’5(i Kowell Bosse
—Turn To Pago Four
Much Difficulty'
Encountered,
Dept. Praised
t> rtic town of Brevard suffer- i
-*ed i(s ivnrsl fire Tuesday night v
in about four years, when (lie
liaseineut of Ayer’s store was
milled by a blaze that was ilif
I ii'ii11 to liiHng under control.
According to Fire Chief Dan
Merrill, damages would have
been thousands and thousands
of dollars worse than it was
had it not been for the cour
age and the ability of 22 of
his fire fighters.
"It was a dangerous fire to
fight, and as nerve-racking as
any we have ever had," Chief
.Merrill declared.
Preliminary investigations
reveal that the blaze started
in a little room near the fur
nace and quickly spread to
the stock stored in the base
ment.
"By quick thinking on the
part of the department, we
were able In keep the fire in
—Turn to Page Thret
Better Schools
Group To Hold
Open Meeting
Tin' executive committee (
Hie Transylvania Citizens eon
miltec. for Itetter Schools ai
noiinees an important meetin
at 7:.'ill pan.. Friday, Februai
loth, at I lie I'.revard high schoi
aiidiloriiim.
This will he an open meetii
and I’-TA members and oth
interested persons are cordii
invited to the meeting.
Dr. David C. Lea, chairman
I lie executive committee, mal
the following statement rej
—Turn to Page
World War I
Vets To Heai
York Sunda^
John C. York, National
uty Chief of Staff. Vete
World War I, USA, Inc.,
the principal speaker at
of World War I veterans
Transylvania County co
Sunday afternoon at 2:301
Headquarters of the
Organization is located
ington, I). C., and by 1
the 9th National Corn?
are pressing in the t
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